Public focuses around the investigation into the January 6 Capitol attack have shifted directly to Rep. Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthyGOP hopes spending traps derail Biden’s agenda, Cheney, Thompson has criticized McCarthy’s comments about Trump on Jan. 6: Hillicon Valley “baseless”: Apple delays functions to detect sexual exploitation MORE (California), the Republican Party leader who has become the face of a challenging opposition to Congressional investigation into the deadly riot.
McCarthy has long been one figure of interest to the selection committee given their phone call withPresident Trump
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The focus on his role and any involvement of other Republicans has only intensified over the past week, when McCarthy took the remarkable step of threatening the country’s technology and telecommunications giants with nameless repercussions if they comply with the researchers to conserve the phone. and records on social media of Republican Party lawmakers who actively supported the blocking effort President Biden
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“If companies continue to choose to violate federal law, a Republican majority will not be forgotten and will stand by the Americans to make them fully accountable under the law,” McCarthy warned.
McCarthy, who is reportedly among the Republicans named in the petition, did not specify the possible consequences and Democrats quickly accused him of criminal attempts to prevent a congressional investigation. But his aggressive resistance to examining the Jan. 6 events has earned him favor with Trump and his supporters on and off Capitol Hill, a boost to the Republican effort to reclaim the House and a likely prerequisite if McCarthy wants to achieve goal of becoming a speaker in 2023.
Led by the rep. Bennie Thompson
Bene, Gordon Thompson, Cheney and Thompson criticized McCarthy’s comments on Trump on January 6: Cheney ‘baseless’ was vice chairman of the January 6 Hillicon Valley committee: agencies on alert for ransomware attacks before head of Labor Day MORE (D-Miss.), The nine-member selection committee has already held a hearing on the Jan. 6 attack, with four police officers defending the Capitol that day, and is looking at several more when Congress returns from the its long summer retreat later month.
Meanwhile, panel members have been busy behind the scenes looking for documents related to the tragic episode, including the issuance of numerous registration requests to various administrative agencies seeking communications between Trump, members of his inner circle and key allies of the Capitol Hill at the beginning of the deadly riot.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren
Zoe Ellen Lofgren: Now is the time to reform Biden’s bankruptcy to meet with 11 Democratic lawmakers in DACA: House GOP blames Pelosi (not Trump) Jan. 6 MORE (D-California), a member of the selection committee, recently stressed that the withholding application to telecommunications companies is only an investigative step, not an allegation of wrongdoing against any of the legislators. But he also warned that McCarthy, in threatening companies, could have violated federal law himself.
“Aside from the fact that section 1505 of the Federal Penal Code says it’s a felony offense … trying to prevent a congressional investigation, one would expect the minority leader to want to get to the bottom of what happened here.” Lofgren told CNN. Anderson Cooper after McCarthy’s statements. “I hope I would like to take a step forward and participate in getting the truth out instead of trying to hide the truth.”
McCarthy’s office did not respond to any requests for comment.
On Friday, McCarthy’s scrutiny intensified. The monitoring group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), filed an ethics complaint, arguing that both McCarthy and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
Marjorie Taylor GreeneGOP’s efforts to minimize the growing danger of Capitol riots Note: What about anti-Trump Republicans now? Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she will meet “soon” with Trump in Florida MORE (R-Ga.) He violated House rules by threatening retaliation against companies that complied with “January 6 legally required document demands and retention requests.”
“House rules require members to respect the laws of the United States and to behave at all times in a manner that is dignified in the House. Threats from Reps McCarthy and Greene do neither, “CREW President Noah Bookbinder wrote. the complaint.
McCarthy’s phone call with Trump on Jan. 6 was made public the same night the Republican Party leader appeared on Fox News and detailed the conversation: “When the Capitol was invaded, I called the president and … I told him what was going on right now, and I asked him to go talk to the American public, to talk to these individuals and to tell him to stop. “
Actually, this exchange was much hotter as the riot police broke the windows of McCarthy’s office and tried to break the floor of the house. Rep. Jamie Herrera Beutler (R-Wash.) Said McCarthy told her and others that while the Capitol was under siege, Trump was trying to blame the antifa for the attack.
“McCarthy refuted it and told the president they were Trump supporters,” the congresswoman said in a statement. “That’s when, according to McCarthy, the president said, ‘Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are.'”
And instead of summoning the crowd, Trump at 2:24 that day tweeted that his vice president, Mike Pence
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Herrera Beutler’s account, which detailed the McCarthy-Trump call, was subsequently introduced in the record of Trump’s second impeachment trial.
The events of January 6 have highlighted a dilemma facing McCarthy and his leadership team: if they cooperate with the investigation, with designs to prevent another attack, they risk a Trump reaction, which continues being the patron of the party towards the middle of the period; if they stand firm in Trump’s defense, they could alienate moderate voters outraged by the attack.
Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff
Adam Bennett Schiff: Night Defense and National Security: Outside Afghanistan, but trapped in limbo. Biden signs the executive order to direct the release of some 9/11 documents. (D-California), also a member of the Jan. 6 committee, acknowledged that panel members have debated and debated their requests for registration from Republican lawmakers and that there was a clear precedent. In a twist, the Trump Department of Justice had confiscated metadata records in Schiff, Rep. Eric Swalwell
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“We examined the historical precedent and there are precedents for looking for records related to members of Congress, more often in the context of ethical investigations. … Participating in an insurrection, an armed insurrection against the government is one of the most ethical violations. serious that can be imagined, “Schiff told MSNBC recently.
“After all, we are determined that whoever is involved in this effort to prevent the peaceful transfer of power could not hide behind his office,” he added. “If people didn’t get involved in trying to overthrow the government, they wouldn’t have to worry. But clearly Kevin McCarthy is, for several reasons, including the boss, his owner in Mar-a-Lago, not he wants it to happen ”.